Question

I am posting data to my web api, one of the parameters I am posting is a date selecteed by a date picker.

Below is the post data to the action (got these values from firebug)

EndDate : "18/10/2012" (Note: the format is : dd/mm/yyyy)

ABC : "do not bother…"

XYZ : "do not bother…"

LMNO : "do not bother…"

Now in my controller I have a class with the above 3 string fields and one date field

public class PostModel{

  public string ABC {get;set;}
  public string XYZ {get;set;}
  public string LMNO {get;set;}
  public DateTime EndDate {get;set;}
}

in my web api which looks somewhat like the one shown below

public Something PostSomething(PostModel model)
{}

here I am getting the value of EndDate in the format of "mm/dd/yyyy". What I want is "dd/mm/yyyy".

So for this I have also added a entry in the web.config file as follows…

<system.web>
<globalization uiCulture="en-GB" culture="en-GB" />
</system.web>

This still doesnt help, please can someone tell me what wrong I am doing ?

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I just tried this out with a normal controller instead of web api controller and it worked for the non – api controller. Has any body else come across this problem ??

For the normal action (non web api) I didnt even had to set any culture for this.

please help.

Answer 1

Changed my End Date date time field to string and then posted this end date as string to my controller.

Then in controller converted this string to date using DateTime.Parse().

I know that this not the best solution one would want, but this gets the job done.